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is obama providing economic opportunity? he inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression but the president is now held responsible for a continuation of high unemployment and minimal hope for its improvement and also for increases in the debt and deficit. his job lts wislation proposals are not being well-received by republicans. the administration has not propose any innovative resolutions for the severe downturn in housing. some believe he should have supported and promoted simpson-bowles deficit reduction proposal. he has not bmeetin rtele to significantly expand economic opportunity. how has obamaarased the tobsls leadership? he attempts to communicate his vision and proposal but he has appeared so often on television that overeublosure was occurrinr he is a capable public speaker but his speeches lack the spirit he showed during his first campaign. he seems to lacversthe coficunication skills of fdr, reagan or clinton. obama frequen-by comes across as a teacher or a motivator and not a motivator. he fa
is obama providing economic opportunity? he inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression but the president is now held responsible for a continuation of high unemployment and minimal hope for its improvement and also for increases in the debt and deficit. his job lts wislation proposals are not being well-received by republicans. the administration has not propose any innovative resolutions for the severe downturn in housing. some believe he should have supported and promoted...
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the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding thoughts. it is a complicated history to were the long road of marriage equality, the beginning is a complicated answer about backlash and the popular analysis of what is going on politically. what i want to conclude with, this has been neglected by the backlash theorists, how the courts have advanced marriage equality. i think there have been three things about what the courts have done. from my point of view, the most important is a fantastically important setting for capabilities. the word marriage in our vocabulary only meant different sects. after they linguistically, the notion of same-sex marriage entered our vocabulary and is now no longer in quote marks. courts are capable of reversing the burden of political inertia as well as giving publicity to an issue and putting it on the public agenda. and in massachusetts, the first state to recognize marriage equality even though it was for a fraction of the peopl
the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding thoughts. it is a complicated history to were the long road of marriage equality, the beginning is a complicated answer about backlash and the popular analysis of what is going on politically. what i want to conclude with, this has been neglected by the backlash theorists, how the courts have advanced marriage equality. i think there have...
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david maraniss is here with a book about obama. i was curious because all these books are so different in terms of authors's approaches to subject matter, with the subject is dead or alive, what kind of access the biographer has to be subject to. i am curious, do you have a philosophy having written many biographies of what exactly a biography should be and what it should do? >> thanks for the question and for all of you coming out. sunday morning is sometimes a chore. i am gratified so many of you are here. the question of biography and what i see it to be. i am trained as a historian so i tend to look at biographies which, regardless of how they are written to some extent all comprise the life and times of your subject. i tend to include more times than some other biographers do. in my experience and observation, biographers come to their subjects from one of two directions. they are either historians like me or journalists. sometimes novelist's find their way in, but the folks who come from the direction of history, to borrow an
david maraniss is here with a book about obama. i was curious because all these books are so different in terms of authors's approaches to subject matter, with the subject is dead or alive, what kind of access the biographer has to be subject to. i am curious, do you have a philosophy having written many biographies of what exactly a biography should be and what it should do? >> thanks for the question and for all of you coming out. sunday morning is sometimes a chore. i am gratified so...
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the obama administration is ready to fill vacancies. this will have rebels all the way down the hierarchy. what i would like to discuss tonight is how we got from where we are, the politics of patronage, the challenges of recruiting political appointees , how the system results in major delays and managerial destructions and how it undermines presidential leadership and good management. and finally, possible remedies for reforming the system. why do we get mad at government incompetence? because we expect a competent and effective bureaucracy. you create bureaucracies that hire competent workers that bring specialization, expertise, accountability, and continuity. there is no alternative in large-scale systems to organize great amounts of people to accomplish a goal or mission. this is not the way the united states began. it took about a century to figure it out and half a century to implement. the spoils system of the nineteenth century, there has been a constant tension between partisan control political appointees in career experts.
the obama administration is ready to fill vacancies. this will have rebels all the way down the hierarchy. what i would like to discuss tonight is how we got from where we are, the politics of patronage, the challenges of recruiting political appointees , how the system results in major delays and managerial destructions and how it undermines presidential leadership and good management. and finally, possible remedies for reforming the system. why do we get mad at government incompetence?...
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president obama is doing his part this small business saturday. and the president taking his daughters to an independent bookstore in arlington, virginia. and a u.s. trucker accused of taking military ammo was freed. he claimed he was delivering the goods to phoenix when he accidentally crossed into mexico and sentenced to three years in prison, but was released with time served. . >> a new push by residentials in washington to take on immigration reform and showing new support for a plan to recruit highly skilled foreign workers, but this proposal has been defeated by democrats before. how will it bear this time. martin frost, former democratic congressman from texas and a former deputy assistant to george bush, and good to see you on this holiday weekend. thank you for joining us tonight. and congressman frost, let me start with you and explain why democrats were opposed to this, looking at something identical just this past september. >> look, the only way you do immigration reform is on a comprehensive basis. i was in congress when we passed s
president obama is doing his part this small business saturday. and the president taking his daughters to an independent bookstore in arlington, virginia. and a u.s. trucker accused of taking military ammo was freed. he claimed he was delivering the goods to phoenix when he accidentally crossed into mexico and sentenced to three years in prison, but was released with time served. . >> a new push by residentials in washington to take on immigration reform and showing new support for a plan...
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now, the other side for the obama children is that they are young and they're very protected by their family. so they're not quite out front. i hope that they are making lots and lots of friends at the schools that they're going to, and they seem to be doing it. everything i read -- that is the only thing i know. i do see -- not because of the presidency connection but because of the senate connection, once a year senate spouses have a lunch for the first lady. so i have an opportunity -- i have had an opportunity to see, i guess, all of the first ladys since we left washington, because of the senate, and to have lunch with them. but i just wished them well and i hope that they enjoy it and i hope they learn and take every advantage of the opportunity. because you can meet so many interesting people and you can learn so much living there. and i tried to take advantage of it. >> to follow up, i had the advantage of traveling to china with my parents when i was a freshman in college. chairman maou was the chairman of china then. that is how long ago it was. and i got to meet him. my dad
now, the other side for the obama children is that they are young and they're very protected by their family. so they're not quite out front. i hope that they are making lots and lots of friends at the schools that they're going to, and they seem to be doing it. everything i read -- that is the only thing i know. i do see -- not because of the presidency connection but because of the senate connection, once a year senate spouses have a lunch for the first lady. so i have an opportunity -- i...
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is the obama administration putting the u.s. in danger by refusing to identify enemies of the state as terrorists. >> gregg: and we are approaching, like it or not, the fiscal cliff. huge spending cuts and tax hikes, but president obama wants to raise taxes on rich americans. how about sitting with voters? instead of raising tax rates on the american people and accepting the damage it will do to our economy, let's start to actually solve the problem. now let's focus on tax reform that closes special interest loopholes and lowers tax rates. you know what? and it won't kill the country if we raises taxes on millionaires a little bit. it really won't. i don't think. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and c
is the obama administration putting the u.s. in danger by refusing to identify enemies of the state as terrorists. >> gregg: and we are approaching, like it or not, the fiscal cliff. huge spending cuts and tax hikes, but president obama wants to raise taxes on rich americans. how about sitting with voters? instead of raising tax rates on the american people and accepting the damage it will do to our economy, let's start to actually solve the problem. now let's focus on tax reform that...
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the goebel project is sort of in a problem and it would be what obama spends the next four years on. i have to say as someone critical of a lot of his domestic policies, i think he's been pretty good. he's certainly someone who has a very cautious, yo nuanced and prudent foreign policy. he does not try too simplify complicated issues and sometimes it's overly cautious but in mysterious times like these over-caution is not the worst of sins. >> brown: mark, he does-- the president that is-- still embroileded in the question of benghazi, and particularly focused on susan rice. >> he does. and one point david made i wanted to follow up on, and that is the arab spring has made it impossible for any leader-- mubarak could really ignore hamas. but now, given the arab spring and the democratization of policy, even though we see mr. morsi today sort of reversing that policy, proven both elected and unelected leaders can be dictatorial. that hamas got a preemence and prominence it had not had fore in this showdown. we had tu nearby awe had egypt, we had turkey-- all basically endorsing much t
the goebel project is sort of in a problem and it would be what obama spends the next four years on. i have to say as someone critical of a lot of his domestic policies, i think he's been pretty good. he's certainly someone who has a very cautious, yo nuanced and prudent foreign policy. he does not try too simplify complicated issues and sometimes it's overly cautious but in mysterious times like these over-caution is not the worst of sins. >> brown: mark, he does-- the president that...
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obama twice. in reading his books, he associated with certain people before he got really big in politics. it is a fundamental thing. do you think it is a long-term agenda for the president is it all hype? guest: i think this is a real issue. the president has said he is committed to deficit reduction. so has speaker boehner. the question is, can they work together and find common ground? congress is a function -- dysfunctional place. the average age of the congressman is close to 57 years old. the institution itself could benefit from some fundamental reforms to make it work better. parties can come together on this issue and put the people of this country before their own political careers. it is a must if we are going to find a solution. host: there is a chart from 1972-2012. the question, who give young people voted for in presidential elections? no surprise. by almost a 2-1 margin, young people voted for democrats in larger margins in 2012. about the same in 2008. you have to go back to 2000
obama twice. in reading his books, he associated with certain people before he got really big in politics. it is a fundamental thing. do you think it is a long-term agenda for the president is it all hype? guest: i think this is a real issue. the president has said he is committed to deficit reduction. so has speaker boehner. the question is, can they work together and find common ground? congress is a function -- dysfunctional place. the average age of the congressman is close to 57 years old....
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the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding thoughts. it is a complicated history to were the long road of marriage equality, the beginning is a complicated answer about backlash and the popular analysis of what is going on politically. what i want to conclude with, this has been neglected by the backlash theorists, how the courts have advanced marriage equality. i think there have been three things about what the courts have done. from my point of view, the most important is a fantastically important setting for capabilities. the word marriage in our vocabulary only meant different sects. after they linguistically, the notion of same-sex marriage entered our vocabulary and is now no longer in quote marks. courts are capable of reversing the burden of political inertia as well as giving publicity to an issue and putting it on the public agenda. and in massachusetts, the first state to recognize marriage equality even though it was for a fraction of the peopl
the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding thoughts. it is a complicated history to were the long road of marriage equality, the beginning is a complicated answer about backlash and the popular analysis of what is going on politically. what i want to conclude with, this has been neglected by the backlash theorists, how the courts have advanced marriage equality. i think there have...
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in the case of barack obama i did not seek fair at the time i wrote the book to judge him over the long course of history based on less than a full term. >> host: to of your more recent books, america's hidden history and a nation rising. is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and then and nation rising was to tell those stories that the school books to leave out and particularly about washington. most americans, unfortunately, still have the cherry tree story in mind when they think of him washington. of course, the story is completely manufactured by a man who did not know washington and made these stories up as a kind of reader for children, couch morality tales in terms of washington's life. so the cherry tree story we can dismiss. but unfortunately every president's day we will see the actors come out with an ax on their shoulder. though chop down the prices on cars. and so that i
in the case of barack obama i did not seek fair at the time i wrote the book to judge him over the long course of history based on less than a full term. >> host: to of your more recent books, america's hidden history and a nation rising. is it fair to say that george washington sometimes maybe we don't learn the full story about george washington? >> guest: we absolutely don't learn the full story about george washington, and one of the reasons i wrote america's hidden history and...